Social Housing Act, 2008 (Act No. 16 of 2008)Chapter 2 : Roles and Responsibilities3. Roles and responsibilities of national government |
| (1) | National government, acting through the Minister, must— |
| (a) | create and uphold an enabling environment for social housing, by providing the legislative, regulatory, financial and policy framework for the delivery of social housing; |
| (b) | ensure compliance with its constitutional responsibilities; |
| (c) | address issues that affect the growth, development or sustainability of the social housing sector; |
| (d) | establish with provinces and municipalities institutional capacity to support social housing initiatives; |
| (e) | institute and fund the social housing programme as a national housing programme to promote the development and supply of social housing stock for low to medium income persons; |
| (f) | designate restructuring zones submitted by provinces and identified by municipalities and specifically provided for in a municipality's integrated development plan contemplated in section 25 of the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act No. 32 of 2000), and may, where appropriate, after due notice in the Gazette, withdraw such designation: |
| (g) | establish capital and institutional investment grants; |
| (h) | review annually and approve the social housing investment plan and the social housing regulatory plan; |
| (i) | allocate funds from the Department's budget for the operational costs and commitments of the Regulatory Authority in accordance with the approved social housing investment plan and the social housing regulatory plan, respectively; |
| (j) | determine norms and standards to be adhered to by provinces and municipalities; and |
| (k) | monitor the Regulatory Authority. |
| (2) | The costs and expenses connected with the implementation of this Act must be defrayed from money appropriated by Parliament to the Department for that purpose. |